Comments (10)

• eric lansing

  and Senator Bunning:

  http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alpUsTv3.upI&refer=home

  Published: September 9, 2008 2:05 PM

• Comrade Patriot

  Well it's about time to call a spade a spade. It looks like Mr. Rogers isn't the only one who doesn't like the looks of this.

  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alpUsTv3.upI&refer=home

  I know that Ayn Rand may not have many fans on this site but I am reminded of Francisco d’Anconia’s speech where he warns if you want to gauge where a society is headed watch look at the value of their currency.

  Can anyone think of a country that is becoming more economically free? I know that Jim Rogers has been touting China but that may or may not be that ideal (e.g. he lives in Singapore).

  Thanks
  

  Published: September 9, 2008 2:22 PM

• Comrade Patriot

  It looks like Eric lansing beat me to the post.

  Published: September 9, 2008 2:26 PM

• Brent

  The interviewer is a caveman, intellectually-speaking.

  Published: September 9, 2008 2:45 PM

• Apprenti Economiste

  Mike Whitney interviews Economist Michael Hudson at

  http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney09082008.html

  on "The Worsening Debt Crisis: Who Got Us into This Mess and What are the Real Political Options?"

  Mr. Hudson certainly does not sound like a big friend of laissez-faire economics. May be some food for a future blog entry.

  Published: September 9, 2008 7:15 PM

• Caveman (intellectually-speaking)

  I wouldn't give Bunning too much credit. His nonsense about "[taking] the free market out of the free market" betrays his obvious ignorance of the fact there was no free market to begin with. Nothing more than the usual Republican lip-service about free markets.

  Published: September 9, 2008 7:37 PM

• a Chinese student

  Oh,I can't believe my eyes. He thinks China is less socialist than America? It is that country with 11 million government employes, 3.5 million military or paramilitary forces. In China, 1.3 billion, maybe 1.5 billion, people only have four State-owned commercial banks and several government-backed banks,which are scandal prone and totally corrupt. It is that corrupt banking system purchase the largest mount of F&F securities. I invent Jim Rogers come to China to see the largest and most corrupt government in the world.

  Published: September 10, 2008 12:10 AM

• Artisan

  Yes, and it's a dictatorship too. I don't think economical freedom can be dissociated from personal.
  Aren't you forced by law to have only one child in China? Isn't Jim Rogers overdoing it?

  Published: September 10, 2008 1:36 AM

• pete

  A recent interview of Jim Rogers:

  http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/09/06/jim-rogers-book/

  Published: September 10, 2008 4:39 AM

• Caveman (intellectually-speaking)

  Now, now give Rogers a break. Obviously, his comment about China was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The message here is that the US government is hardly the defender of free-market capitalism it often claims to be. Don't get distracted by Rogers' hyperbole. The underlying conditions are real. And, yes, the USA is a socialist country.

  Published: September 10, 2008 11:45 AM